Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out, and I don't know but more so.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

Moreover, the king built many ships in the Egyptian Bay of the Red Sea, in a certain place called Ezion-geber: it is now called Berenice, and is not far from the city Eloth.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

What those two creatures did in her absence, she never knew; but Mr. Scott was not taken "up to mother's," and when Meg descended, after they had strolled away together, she found traces of a promiscuous lunch which filled her with horror.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Ang pagpirma ku sa kuntrátu buluntaryu, My signing of the contract is a voluntary act.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Not only doth he lie, who speaketh contrary to his knowledge, but more so, he who speaketh contrary to his ignorance.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By and by he began to revive, and, feeling very hungry, called out to a passing Sheep and said, "Would you kindly bring me some water from the stream close by?
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

The same joy came over me that I used to feel on Christmas morning long ago when Kris Kringle brought me some wonderful bit of mechanism moved by a secret spring—for I always scorned to accept ordinary toys like ordinary children; and oh, how I longed for the morning, when it would be time for me to bundle up the Little Man—no longer him with the Frozen Smile, but Fuffcoojah, the Live Boy from Faraway, with his curious little face screwed up into such a funny look—and carry him to the palace.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Wà ka ba mamátì sa ákung sulti? Weren’t you listening to my story?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was a regular hole, and I knew by my sense of smell that hams and cheeses were usually kept there; but it contained none at present, for I fell all round to see how the land lay.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Kanang bisyúha makasumpù sa túbù, That vice stunts the growth.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Bertha thanked him, and then made her way to the boarding house kept by Mrs. Smith, a little Irishwoman who had arrived at Rownton with the railway and stayed there ever since.
— from The Youngest Sister: A Tale of Manitoba by Bessie Marchant

give | the following information: | YSOP, isop, ispe(n), eisop; hysop, m. | (F.),HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS L., KLEINER | BUSCH MIT STARK DUFTENDEN BLΔTTERN und | VIOLETTEN BLάTEN.
— from Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

The brave Morland was killed by my, side.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

One New England school, haloed with romance, was kept by Mrs. Susanna Rawson, who was an actress, the daughter of an English officer, and married to a musician.
— from Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

Once perceived and known by me, shall it not continue to live in my soul, triumphing over age and even over death?
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

When I have read some of these cruel and dishonest attacks, often written by men who know better, my soul has been sickened at the thought of the cowardice and dishonesty to which the opponents of Socialism resort.
— from The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo

A look of pain passed into Mrs. Marvel's face; she knelt by Minnie's side, and gently raising the girl's head, she whispered again,-- "Minnie!
— from Joshua Marvel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon